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Product Description: Youth culture is rich with poetry, from song lyrics that teens read, listen to, and write, to poetry they perform through slams and open mics. The rich, compact language of poetry both inside and outside the classroom plays a valuable role in bridging the divide between youth culture and academic culture...read more

Product Description: 50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing addresses the challenges facing every student beginning a program of academic study. This comprehensive guide gives you everything you need to write well-constructed academic essays. It is packed full of information that is critical to attaining better marks, including: * how to apply critical thinking skills * how to strengthen your arguments * how to include paper referencing * how to avoid plagiarism 50 Steps has been developed to mirror best practice in academic essay writing: researching, planning, writing and then proofreading an essay...read more

Product Description: Is this the right course for me?Do you have a working knowledge of German, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written German is presented and analyzed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong...read more

Product Description: Do you have a working knowledge of Italian, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Italian is presented and analyzed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong...read more

Product Description: Do you have a working knowledge of Spanish, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Spanish is presented and analysed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong...read more

Product Description: Daily Math Multiplication Practice 500 Worksheets This book contains 500 multiplication worksheets for practice with one multiplicand and one multiplier of 4 digits each. These maths problems are provided to improve the mathematics skills by frequent practicing of the worksheets provided...read more

Product Description: A brief and accessible introduction to the concepts and techniques used in applied linguistics research, which will be illustrated using real-life examples. The book covers both qualitative and quantitative research design, sampling procedures, instrumentation and analyses found in applied linguistics research...read more

Product Description: Not only is there a huge hole in the ozone layer—there is a huge hole in the education market. This is an alphabet book with many differences from the norm, written by a very respected speech therapist with over thirty years experience...read more

Product Description: "Aan Thai" is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's "Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook". It provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and writing for students learning the language at the elementary level...read more

The Hindi Script - called Devanagari - is a beautifully logical writing system. This book introduces Devanagari in the traditional order. It also gives you some information on the cultural orientation of the language, explaining where Hindi belongs in the history of Indian languages, and showing where its words come from.

Product Description: Plagiarism has long been regarded with concern by the university community as a serious act of wrongdoing threatening core academic values. There has been a perceived increase in plagiarism over recent years, due in part to issues raised by the new media, a diverse student population and the rise in English as a lingua franca...read more